Humane technology has been showing off it’s little AI powered wearable devices – this time at the Paris Fashion show. They paired up with Coperni fashion and pinned the devices to their models.

What these devices do is – well – nobody really knows. Officially they are a “screenless, standalone device and software platform built from the ground up for AI. The intelligent clothing-based wearable uses a range of sensors that enable natural and intuitive compute interactions and is designed to weave seamlessly into users’ day-to-day lives.” It appears to be powered by a Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 processor and have ‘AI-powered optical recognition and a laser-projected display’.

There is some speculation they are a little like the Google Clip, but the AI Pin claims to be completely standalone and not tethered to other devices (like the iWatch, etc)

Right now there is almost no information about what they do or if they even turn on. There’s a lot of speculation that right now they are in ‘hype’ mode to collect investors. But with no actual working prototypes nor information about them – many are wondering if this is a case of the emperor has no clothes.

Still, it is an interesting thought experiment. If you did have one of these devices – what WOULD you want in a wearable little device like this? There doesn’t appear to be any screen; so how would it fit in the economy that has cell phones, digitally connected watches, and possibly screenless wearable devices?

Update 11/2023:

There’s a little more information here on Time’s ‘Best Inventions of 2023‘; though they do disclose that 2 TIME co-chairs were investors – so maybe a little bit of thumbs on the scale there.